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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Philter - 2025 - The Origin Tapes
Last year, I stumbled across an old CD-RW containing project files I was sure had been lost forever. What followed was a deep dive into a handfull of my old songs, going through each project track by track, re-linking VSTs, synths, and plugins.
I removed samples and uncleared material, all while trying to preserve the spirit of the originals as faithfully as possible, for better or worse. Some tracks needed adjustments, others remain exactly as they were, just in higher quality.
The result is "The Origin Tapes", a collection of my very first tracks as Philter, the beginnings of the sound and style that would eventually allow me to make music for a living.
Take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane, with the tracks that started it all, 20 years ago.
I removed samples and uncleared material, all while trying to preserve the spirit of the originals as faithfully as possible, for better or worse. Some tracks needed adjustments, others remain exactly as they were, just in higher quality.
The result is "The Origin Tapes", a collection of my very first tracks as Philter, the beginnings of the sound and style that would eventually allow me to make music for a living.
Take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane, with the tracks that started it all, 20 years ago.
Blod - 2021 - Missväxt LP
Grapefruit Records – GY11-5
Blod is the solo project of Gustaf Dicksson (Enhet För Fri Musik, Oroskällan), a prolific and crucial figure in the Swedish Underground scene radiating out of Gothenburg and centered around a number of independent labels and including bands such as Enhet För Fri Musik, Monokultur, Oroskällan, Loopsel, and Neutral. Blod has released various home-recorded cassettes and a handful of LPs since 2014, all mercurial in nature, exploring various facets of Dicksson’s preoccupations. The melodies borrow from tradition and possess a lonesome quality inspired by Swedish melancholy, close relations, and white trash culture. Combined with intentionally banal artwork, the experience can be beguiling and sometimes bleak but at the same time warm and humorous.
Missväxt is Dicksson’s greatest work yet, exploring the myth of ancient Swedish being and misery but with a sound that is uniquely ecstatic. Inspired by medieval folk music, it’s reminiscent of Fairport Convention’s marriage of traditional folk music and psychedelic rock.
Missväxt features guest appearances by Elin Engström (Loopsel, Monokultur) on drums, Astrid Øster Mortensen on vocals and flute, Joakim Karlsson (Facit) on production and synth, and Magnus Jäverling on flute.
Arv & Miljö - 2021 - Ensam Är Nattens Rymd Över Vita Vägar
Discreet Music – 06
The third part in Arv & Miljös seasonal ambient tetralogy, following up Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott Records, 2018). The 11 segments on Ensam Är Nattens Rymd are inspired just as much by the memories of long and cold childhood winters that never seemed to end as it is by walking home on slushy Gothenburg streets in the middle of December. Based more on rudimentary back-to-basics analouge 4-track tactics, the lush and shimmering ambience from Himmelsvind is replaced with a slow-moving, monotonous and grittier variation on the same formula and the sound is somewhat reminiscent of how the world sounds like from inside a snow cave. Tape murk, jarring discordance and ice cold droning aside, much is still similar to its two slightly lighter predecessors, taking severe cues from 80's new age cassette culture and what not. Featuring guest appearances by Helen Johnstone (The Garbage & The Flowers) and P Wits. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
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